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Beter Wordt het Niet - Season 1 (2024)

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Alternative title: This Gonna Be Great

IMDb score: 6,8 (159)

Episodes: 10

Playing time: 4 hour and 13 minutes

Developed by: Rutger Lemm and Rein Mulder

Stars: Rein Mulder, Abigail Abraham and Mona Vojacek Koper

Origin: Netherlands / Germany

Releasedate: Thursday 19 September 2024

First aired on: NPO 3 (Nederland)

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Beter Wordt het Niet plot

David (28) gives up his lease and emigrates to his girlfriend Eva in Berlin. A romantic gesture, but she has had enough of his lack of sense of reality and breaks up with him immediately. David decides to build a new life in the challenging and sometimes downright strange German capital. He contacts his Flemish girlfriend Aisha, finds a room with the eccentric Norwegian Rob and falls in love with the cynical German Hanna. He finds a job and meets all kinds of Berlin types. But with all these (mis)steps the question is: is David making the same mistakes, or is he finally growing up?

Episodes Season 1 (2024)

  1. 1. Een Nieuwe Plek

    19 September 2024 (24 minutes)

  2. 2. Taal

    26 September 2024 (25 minutes)

  3. 3. Geld

    3 October 2024 (25 minutes)

  4. 4. Liefde

    10 October 2024 (25 minutes)

  5. 5. Familie

    17 October 2024 (27 minutes)

  6. 6. Gezondheid

    24 October 2024 (25 minutes)

  7. 7. Flow

    31 October 2024 (25 minutes)

  8. 8. Contact

    7 November 2024 (25 minutes)

  9. 9. Climax

    14 November 2024 (25 minutes)

  10. 10. Succes

    21 November 2024 (27 minutes)

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Suitehome

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Main character David (Rein Mulder) leaves for Berlin full of expectations to meet his girlfriend and settle there. After his girlfriend ends the relationship, David is left to his own devices and makes his way through Berlin, its experimental art and nightlife. It leads to a collection of special, uncomfortable and alienating encounters that you can safely call slightly absurd.

The biggest problem with the 10-part Dutch comedy Beter Wordt Het Niet is that - apart from a few witticisms - the series just doesn't seem to want to be funny and constantly gives an artificial impression. The experiments, such as in episode 5, seem to be there purely for form's sake and take the pace out of the already slow dissertations. It doesn't get any better, not even in the second part. Stylistically, the comparison with Bodem is obvious, also with an extremely annoying main character. The high level of Bodem is never reached in Beter Wordt Het Niet.

The dry and awkward humor doesn't really come across well, and isn't given context by more dramatic subplots. The series doesn't get any further than sympathetic intentions, and remains painfully stuck in cinematic no-man's land. The best role is for the city of Berlin. For a comedy, that's not a good sign.

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It was entertaining to watch, but I also had the feeling the whole time that it wasn't quite finished. It didn't quite get off the ground, sometimes things just seem so out of the blue, and it lacks context and coherence. I get the feeling they watched Donald Glover's Atlanta, but they're nowhere near that level. And David, at 28, is unfortunately not credible.

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